China was always clear about how they collected their data (admittedly, moreso to the Chinese-speaking audience where they actually described this). Again, the limitations of lack of testing were very pronounced around the world at the start of the pandemic and sticking to verified cases was the only actual data available. R0 was still an open question: how would you have wanted an estimate to be made?

According to the IEA, China’s coal demand will peak in 2024.

Sinopec only claims coal peaking in 2025.

Sinopec also claims peak oil happened in 2023.

Moreover, that peak gasoline has already passed due to the EV transition.

According to CREA, China’s emissions are set to fall in 2024.

The Washington Post corroborated this general message, even if it did not give an exact date.

Even intuitively, this makes sense: emissions growth are tied to economic growth (particularly in construction), so if the construction sector is in structural decline then emissions should decline with it. If the economy is not growing, then emissions should fall. If the mix of primary energy sources pivots towards renewables, emissions should fall.

This is entirely independent from whether the capacity exists: you can study this entirely from the demand-side because everyone knows renewables are the most cost-effective option on the supply-side.

NYT is shit the minute they step outside of domestic affairs. It’s unfortunate, really.

Is that a surprise? Coronavirus cases around the world were limited by reporting capability. In the US, many cases were left entirely unreported because of political reasons.

China hit the peak early and only reported cases that could be tested and verified as being COVID. Thus, geometric scaling in an exponential world.

That, or China’s extreme lockdowns actually did something to transmission behaviours by tuning down R0. You decide.

This is just… A poorly researched article. China’s GDP per capita in 1995 was $609. The shittiest computer of that era would’ve been around $1000, and most of the parts would’ve been imported from the US (which, at the time, was obscenely far ahead in the semiconductor game). On a somewhat related note, China joined the WTO in 2001.

The NYT assumes that everywhere around the world had a computing renaissance in the late 90s… But not everywhere is as wealthy as the US. By the start of 1995, there were only 3000 Internet users in China. So… No shit, there’s not much available from 1995?

Of course, by the end of 2005, China has 111 million users, but most of them were still consolidated on the main platforms (NetEase, Tencent’s QQ, Alibaba, Baidu, etc.). I did a cursory check of them, and there’s a ton of content from the 1995-2005 era up on them. Check for yourself.

One important note: Baidu is a really terrible search engine. It doesn’t index everything, and even when it has something indexed sometimes it just won’t serve it because (presumably) it looks up in a cache of popular sites rather than doing a comprehensive lookup. In fact, Baidu’s shiftiness is a well-known joke in the Chinese internet community.

Is this a surprise? Unlike oil, gas is extremely hard to transport. China’s playing hard to get with PoS 2 because the renewable transition is hitting much faster than anticipated (China is hitting their fossil fuels consumption and emissions targets years in advance)… And China doesn’t see natural gas outside of PoS 1 and domestic production as a significant part of the energy mix in the future. They skipped the whole coal -> natural gas step.

Meanwhile, crossing the multiple borders to get to India would be a rather complex undertaking, and Nordstream got blown up so European revenues will be suppressed indefinitely even if the war ends (convenient, that).

Given no export target, most natural gas will have to be flared off in the process of oil production… Bad for the environment, but unavoidable given the lack of Nordstream.

Russian oil revenues are high, though, and the domestic surplus of energy has given Russian industry a kick in the butt, so the real losers in this are Germany and Europe, which have seen their industrial bases decimated.

Marcos Questions ‘Secret’ Duterte Deal with China on Sea Dispute

The previous administration made and respected a gentleman’s agreement in the area. This isn’t a question of sovereignty, but of whether the Philippines is under an obligation to respect deals made by previous administrations.

Chinese cars are so fucking good for 10k though. It’s like just strictly a superior product on the low end of the market.

Rice is easy to store and transport because it doesn’t really spoil. Is basically a supercrop in that regard.

It’s not exactly the end of the world to implement terminator seeds… The reason it hasn’t been implemented is because it’s not an issue. This is a non-issue that’s getting blown out of proportion.

Farmers will opt to maximize profits given all else equal. The license is a cost of goods sold and gets factored in when farmers decide what to plant. Farmers aren’t forced to plant golden rice.

but but but my MBFC rating!!111!

NYT credible ahahahahahahaha

Oh you’re serious. The NYT is rather good for domestic affairs, but it’s foreign bureaus have been underfunded for ages.

MBFC is a joke that evaluates factuality based on how well it aligns with the state department. We already know this.

DolphinMath is a propagandist that uses MBFC to whitewash propaganda. We also already know this.

Source: x.com

Yeah, try again.

Those CGI artists need to be fired.

There’s no excuse for such shitty CGI when gen AI tools exist.

I mean… No shit? ATACMS has a range of 300km, and it’s not like Russia’s pushed the front line 300km.

Look at a map of the European power grid: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Map-of-European-high-voltage-transmission-grid-Source-Adapted-from-GENI-2011_fig1_281127145

Now repeat your claim again, but this time be serious.

No mappers seem to confirm this… There are reports of Ukrainian counteroffensives in the area, but nothing that goes so far as to indicate that Ukraine has taken back control of all of Russia’s territorial gains there. If anything, it’s starting to look like another stalemate along a new frontline.

Is Zelensky talking out of his ass? Are mappers receiving delayed data? Who knows…

It’s been almost a decade of civilian targets in Donetsk Oblast getting struck. Sure, blame it on civil war, but point still holds.

The argument against Golden Rice should have nothing to do with GMO and everything to do with monocultures.

Greenpeace is fucked in the head.